Tom Lee simply gave a made-up 4chan “prediction” a second life, and the web did what it at all times does when an enormous title nods at an enormous quantity: it handled it like a worth prediction.
Lee, being a boss of BitMine Immersion, reacted with “love this,” a quote-post to a picture that claimed 2026 ATH targets of $250,000 for Bitcoin, $20,000 for Ethereum and $1,500 for Solana, and framed them as “outputs” moderately than opinions.
Apparently, the prediction shortly gained its personal warning label with a group word that claims the referenced discussion board put up quantity is outdoors the board’s present vary for December 2025 and that archive checks discovered no match, so the viral “anon” supply seems invented.
Within the meantime, BitMine’s treasury at present accommodates $11.83 billion in crypto worth with 4,066,062 ETH versus 192 BTC, a 99.86% ETH allocation by worth. It’s so large that each $1,000 transfer in ETH marks that pile-up by about $4.07 billion on paper, which explains why a moonshot headline will get a nod from Lee.
What if?
If ETH really prints $20,000, BitMine’s 4,066,062 ETH could be valued at about $81.32 billion. On the identical dashboard by CoinGecko, the Ethereum line is proven round $11.82 billion, so the upside from that ETH-only stack could be about +$69.5 billion on paper, earlier than counting the separate 192 BTC place.
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The fakeness of the prediction doesn’t cease the narrative from being tradeable. It nonetheless vegetation a ceiling quantity for folks to anchor to and sells the concept that ETH is the treasury asset of this cycle, whereas propping up fairness proxies like BMNR when crypto chatter spills over into shares.